People-People

The Mhuysqa elders are making a call for “the culture of the new earth, a culture to be with the other, understanding that life is the experience in the community, because we were born as people, in a state of oneness with everything around” Jate Kulchavita. 

We need to remember how to be people-people, nature-people. We need to know and remember how to live in a community. However, in order to accomplish harmonious relationships, for healthy communities, it is necessary to have the space for the nourishment of the self, create the space for “capturing silence” and allowing every being the possibility to do the “inner walk” that develops the inner coherence and self-realization, from this space we can be mature individuals, ready to be in a relationship without drama, moral, idealism, separation, conflict or judgement…

Now, while we work in ourselves, we also enter in relationships and that is the excuse for the individual to practice constantly the art of being. Relationships are ships to navigate our boat in the ocean of our partner’s presence, it is a way to bring compassion and acceptance to our daily life by practicing it. That’s why it is important to be constant in the practice of relationships, to be as a hunter, to be alert vigilant and observant of yourself while you are connecting with the other, remembering that you are hunting your own ego; because by hunting your own ego, you are allowing self.transformation happen.

“Thought Medicine”

The natives from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta shared with me about recapitulation, confession and self-checking, practicing “Thought Medicine”. This practices consist for me(in few words) in going back in time with awareness and bring the unbalance past situation into the present moment, to reveal with consciousness the lesson behind it. 

Now, the Mhuysqa elder’s advice is to do it every night, they said that by "harvesting" in the night, everything you need to improve, before going to bed, you can wake up in the morning as a new person. It is important to know that this practice is about you, and not about the other. It’s a practice to reveal the pattern and the archetype that you are reproducing.

Sometimes our behavior with our friends, lover, and family is connected with the history of our linage. So, if you feel the call, after doing the recapitulation, you can open the space for talking with the person about the nectar (the lesson) of your relationship and share as a confession any realization that you have about yourself. It’s true for me, that the more we practice how to see ourselves thru the other, more we can accept and let the other BE.

I started to put into practice this “thought medicine” for my personal relationships and it has been wonderful, because it helps me to see that everything that happens in the relationship it’s something that I create. Sometimes we are merge in our own things, projects, hobbies, and we forget that around us there are other sensitive beautiful beings. 

I realize this when I find out that our dog negro was sick, he was acting weird but nobody pay attention to him, like real attention, you know, so, after few days he died, it was too late when we choose to put our attention to him. I was so angry and sad with myself for being in my “priorities” … I felt like I was blind… and sometimes we are blind about what is happening in our relationships.

Every being is a flower! A precious and delicate flower. Let’s take care of our garden!

Salutation

Salutation to all our ancestors, to the guardians of our territories, to the spirits in all nature, i ask for permission to write this words in your mind/heart.

We salute to everything that is in front of us, everything that we can see and touch, to all tangible things on earth.

We salute to everything that is behind us, everything that is invisible, all the mystery of life.

We salute to everything that is surrounding us, to our family, relatives, friends and people standing next to us.

I&i recognize myself in this life as a native.mestiza in the path of recovering the memory that is link to my home land mhuikita (Bogota, Colombia) where the ancestral medicine is the thought and the word, supported by the sacred plants of coca & tobacco and the act of weaving mochila (bag) to cultivate presence.

My experience with the elder's teachings has been really useful for me and my family. It helps me to bring awareness to my emotional and mind body, to harmonize all my relationships, and connect with my trueself from a space of compassion.

I express infinite gratitude to all the wisdom keepers around the world.